Railway-car route register and indicator



. FISHER.

RAILWA'Y CIIR 'ROUTE REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED ocT. 22, 1920.

Y @BICDRR .CAPS M254 Patented Feb. 22, 1921.

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RAILWAY-'CAR 'ROUTE VREGISTER AND rltioreii'.I'zlot.v`

y Specification of Letters Patent. y Patented Feb.

Applicationled October 22, 1920i SerialNo. 418,832.

To all whom 1f/may cof/wem.' f

Be it known that I, THOMAS FISHER, av citizen of the United States, and vresiding at Madeira, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and -useful Improvement in Railway-Car yRoute Registers and Indicators, of which the fol-l lowing `specification is a full disclosure.

` My invention relates to a junction or route indicator as a permanent record system and as a permanent lfixture thereof 'applied to a railway car for indicating and recording junctions or points at which the car is transferred from the lines of one railroad 'comi pany to the lines of another, the return location and the period such car remains in the possession of the transferee, for which "a per diem rental charge is made.

The transfer from one kline to-'another is necessary in transporting shipments to and from various destinations not directly upon the lines of one railroad company. j Accordjing to railroad practise, a junction card is tacked upon the car, designating the junction for transfer, which is both the delivery and return point, or other data required.V

rIhe cards are frequently lost, leaving nothing on the car to indicate the place to which the car must be returned, causing delay and expense before authorized return directions are secured.

An object of the invention is to provide a holder or container, as a fixture permanently secured upon a railroad car and ata convenient and accessible place, for journaling a pair of manually rotative spindles, as un-v winding and rewinding web supports for a continuous strip of paper or other suitable material, adapted to be fed through apertures in the face wall of the container, or'

passing display windows or openings of the container for exposing definite strip areas or divisions as consecutive indicator, display or data record Spaces.

The apertures in the fro-nt wall of the casing are arranged and spaced to provide two adjacent platen surfaces with a guide roller journaled in the casing and extended between said platen surfaces so that the web may be fed from one support within the casing through an aperture and over one platen surface, thence inwardly and outwardly around `the roll and over the second platen surface, and thence inward through an aperture to a second web support. This exposesv two consecutive .record or entry spaces of the web, with the casingl and roller as' a margin-frame for each web .sp-ace." Various other advantages and featuresof the invention will be morel fully set'forth 60 in the description ofA the accompanying draw1ngs,"forming apart 'of .this specifi-cation, and in such drawings like "characters of reference" denote ,correspondingVv parts throughout the several views, of which i Figure l is a front lelevation ofthe device with a portion; of the hinged cover plate i shown as swung lto an open position; Fig. 2 is apcentral section through'Fig. 1, the cover plate being the closed position.

Referring' tothe drawings, `1 indicates a box-like container or casing of rigid'and dura-ble construction, adapted to 'be'.securely fastened to a railway car and capable of Y withstanding heavy usage and weather con- 75. ditions to which a car as a freight car is usually subjected.

TheV casing provides a support for thc spindles 2, 3, which are adapted to project through the side walls, and extend eXteriorly of one side of the casing for receiving the thumb pieces 4, 5, respectively, for manually rotating the spindle in unwinding thc strip from the web, say of spindle 2 and purposes. YThe platen surfaces are formed.V

by cross bars vor plates 8, 9, spaced relatively and from the front wall longitudinally to provide the paper receiving vapertures lO, 1l. Intermediate the' bars 8, 9,I provide a guide roller 12 over which the `100 strip loops 1n passing from the firstplatenV surface to thesecond. The strip is vfed to and from spindle 2 to and throughthe aperture l0, over the platen surface of Vbar 8, threading inwardly and outwardly around1105 the roller'l2, thenv over the platen surface of bar 9, and through aperture 11 to the spindle 3. i

This construction .provides two Y strip'. exposure spaces longitudinally of the strip and relatively spaced, each of suilicientarea"A for displaying the required data or for making the necessary entries for the contem-V plated use. The strip can be fed in either direction by rotating a respective spindle.

e The data preferably is entered upon the vex posed strip portion or space 'over the platen" bar 8, after which it is advanced tothe second exposed space for display purposes. 1n this manner the junction point and dateof transfer or other instructions are easily ascertained, a permanent record of every entry is always maintained with the car.y To protect the exposed portionsvv of the' strip, the

lcasing is2 provided with a hinged cover 13 i' capable of being swung upwardly inverted in order to .permit reading or Vmaking an entry upon the strip. Theicasing has a car identification ,plate ltpermanently fixed` thereon,usually containing a number corresponding tothe number of the car, sc that the )casing Withnits particular car record cannot be transferred toanother car without` detection.,f Transferring cards, under the card system, with the .record cards tacked to the car, is frequently resorted to by railroad employees to shift the responsibility, and' who, in some cases, maliciously kdestroy the cardswhen they'have failed to follow orders. The junctioncard usually is tacked two platens adjacent each otherseparated by said narrow cross member so that" successive forms` on a web threaded over one platen,-u nder the cross member and over.v

the other platen may be .visible :at the same time, and a pair of web supports journaicd withinithe casingrotative to withdrawv vthe web from one oversaid `.platens andA rewind the; saine yupon the other. A f e Infwitness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name as attested by the two subscribing witnesses. I c

f; Y THOMAS FISHER.

i Witnesses E 1 L. A. Brion, J. C, JUNIUs, 

